The Concerned youth group of Kyekyebiase in Asante Akim Central of the Ashanti Region has called on His Royal Highness Otumfour Osei Tutu II to as a matter of urgency intervene and halt the ongoing illegal mining activities happening in the area
They claim that indiscriminate galamsey activities currently taking place in the community are happening in the glare of opinion leaders and government authorities.
Kyekyebiase is a farming community that is noted for producing adequate farm produce to feed the entire community but the illegal mining activities are said to be destroying the cocoa farms and crop farms .
According to residents in the town and the surrounding communities, the galamsey activities are seriously destroying river bodies and forest reserves to the detriment of the health of the residents.
Communities like Kyekyebiase, Aboabo, Menna, Akodeasua, Afeneasua and Dunsin have been serious;y affected by the galamsey activities .
The concerned youth further blamed some land owners in the area for contributing to the conduct of the illegal mining activities in exchange for bread and butter.
The group further accused the MCE of authorizing the illicit mining activities According to them the Municipal Chief Executive lied that, his office would conduct prospecting activities before giving permits to responsible mining however, while waiting for his prospecting activities excavators and other mining machines had been sent to the site to do mining.
The group was however quick to state that, when a follow up interview with the MCE, Hon. Robert Yaw Kwarkye was conducted, he averred that the only mining company that approached him was Kobra Mining Company with a prospecting mining license apart.